Read Japanese Character using Scanner

Question

Possible duplicate: How can I read Chinese characters correctly using Scanner in Java?

My input file name may have japanese characters and I am trying to read the fi

Answer 1

Eclipse is reading from the Console which is set by default as UTF-8. To read the data you need to change the console encoding to Japanese supported encoding.

In the Run Configuration, change the encoding to Japanese supported encoding and try again.

Answer 2

Your code is correct, only issue is you are reading utf-8 and then converting it to Shift_JIS which prints junk characters.

Have you tried using this.

Scanner sc = new Scanner(System.in,"utf-8");
System.out.println("Encoding is :" + Charset.defaultCharset());

System.out.println("Enter the path:");
String inputFilePath = sc.nextLine();
System.out.println("Input path:" + new String(inputFilePath.getBytes("utf-8")));

Hope this helps !!

Answer 3

This Answer for Chinese

Every String is already (conceptually) a sequence of characters, including Chinese characters.. Encoding only comes into it when you need to convert it into a bytes, which you don't need to for your assignment. Just use the String's hashcode. In fact, when you create a HashMap, that's exactly what will happen behind the scene